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THE 



SPIRIT OF THE SOUTII 



NOPiTIIERN FUEEMEN AND SOLDIERS 



DEPENDmGt 



THE AMEEICAN FLK} 



TRAITORS OF THE DEEPEST DYE. 



BOSTON: 

PUBLISHED BY R. F. WALLCUT, 

i^O. 221 WASHINGTON STREET. 

1861. 






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CoruoU UaiV^, 






THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH, 



Southern Humanity and Refinement. The following is 
one specimen only of a class of letters which are almost daily 
received by Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts, from " chival- 
rous " gentlemen (?) in the Southern States : — 

" Union Springs, Alabama, ) 

Confederate States, May 6, 1861. ) 
" Gov. Andrew : 

"Sir, — We see in a New York paper that you have 
requested the authorities of Baltimore to send the bodies of 
the soldiers of your regiment that were killed at Baltimore 
back to Boston packed in ice, at the expense of the Common- 
wealth. We also see that you anticipate sending 200,000 
men to coerce the South, to march from Washington City to 
Pensacola. Now, as it is very probable that some of these 
soldiers will be killed, we propose to take a contract for send- 
ing back their dead bodies, so as to be much cheaper to your 
people and give general satisfaction to their kindred. The 
following is our proposition : — 

" For the first thousand, $50.00 per head. 
" ten " 37.50 

" thirty " 25.00 " 

" one hundred" 15.00 " 

" We pledge ourselves to have them packed as quickly as 
possible after they are shot, so that the corpse will retain as 
much of his native bloom as possible. 

"In all instances, commissioned officers will be charged 
double the above rates. 

" Should your Excellency be pleased to give us the contract, 
we will thank you to notify us immediately, or as soon as the 



4 SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 

Northern array crosses Mason and Dixon's line, for it will be 
necessary for whoever takes the contract to begin at that 
point, as Lee and Beauregard and Ben McCuUoch and Jef- 
ferson Davis will be there to receive them, and will be very 
apt to kill a few — and we would regard it a great calamity 
for the Northern soldier to spoil ; besides, we Southerners, in 
our hot climate, dislike offensive smells. After due reflec- 
tion, and some little Christian consideration, we will be 
pleased to hear from you. 

" Very respectfully, TONEY & WAUGH." 



Eavings of a Virginia Editor. The Bichmond (Va.) 
'Examiner indulges in this highly amusing view of the North 
and its soldiers : — 

"The North has no officers to command or drill the cow- 
ardly, motley crew of starving foreigners and operatives that 
it proposes to send South to fill ditches and as food for can- 
non, because it has no room in its penitentiaries and poor 
houses to receive or sustain them. The regular troops of the 
Union, since the resignation of the Southerners, are deficient 
in officers; and who are to drill and command the 75,000 
militia sheep ? 

" If we except Benedict Arnold, there never was a North- 
ern man who was fitted to command, if you would give him a 
chance to run. Like cowardly boys, when pent up on ship- 
board without a chance of escape, they gather courage from 
despair, and fight desperately. But with ninety-nine North- 
ern men in a hundred, on all occasions, duty, honor, patriot- 
ism, has ever been considered a mere matter of profit and 
loss. Since the days of Washington, they have ever deemed 
that course of conduct by which most money is made and 
least risk incurred, the most virtuous and honorable. 

"They will not come to Washington, they cannot be hand- 
cuffed and driven to Washington, if we only precede them, 
and let them see that they will have to fight for glory, and 
not for spoils and plunder. They never did fight, and never 
will fight, except for pay, for pillage and plunder. Once 
satisfy them that no money is to be made, no plunder to be 
gotten by invading the South, and no power on earth can lash 
and kick them south of Mason and Dixon's line." 



TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH. O 

"Weeping Warriors." Under this caption, the New- 
Orleans Bulletin indulges in the following effusion : — 

" If we can credit the Northern journals, there must be in 
old Abe's officers very little of that sterner stuff soldiers are 
supposed to possess. Whenever or wherever they make their 
appearance, it is, like Niobe, all in tears. They weep when 
they surrender ; weep when reinforced at some invested post ; 
weep when ordered into service ; weep for not being ordered 
into service, and weep even when the recipients of a great 
popular ovation. By the Rood, these Northern Paladins are 
o'er given to the melting mood. From the .Lieutenant-G-en- 
eral down to Lieut. Jones, who, in one night, ran all the way 
from Harper's Ferry to Carlisle Barracks, Pa., there rains 
such a flood of tears, 

" That were the worlcl on fire, 
They might have drowned the wrath of Heaven, 
And quenched the mighty ruin." 

" But the latest and most affecting of all these exhibitions 
is the following, from the Providence Journal : — 

" ' We learn that when the Massachusetts troops arrived at Fort Mun- 
roe, the commander of the fort was moved to tears. He exclaimed, seizing 
the hand of their Colonel, " in Heaven's name, where did you get such 
noble-looking fellows as these ? " He shook every man by the hand.' 

" Well, if the greasy operatives of Lowell and Lawrence, 
and the smutty shoemakers of Lynn, be ' noble-looking fel- 
lows,' then language has lost its meaning. Probably the 
weeping commander, being a kind-hearted man, used the 
language attributed to him in the sense that Wordsworth 
somewhere says " the meanest things can call up thoughts 
that do often lie too deep for tears." 



"Let patriotic citizens, then, go forth upon the trackless 
war paths of the ocean to fight for their country in the most 
effective manner. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of the 
property of the enemy invite them to spoil him — to 'spoil 
these Egyptians' of the North, who would coerce us to stay- 
ing when we strove peaceably to make our exodus to inde- 
pendence of their oppressive thrall ; to go forth from degrad- 
ing fellowship with them. The richly laden ships of the 



6 



SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 



enemy swarm on every sea, and are absolutely unprotected. 
The harvest is ripe; let it be gathered, and we will strike the 
enemy to the heart — for we hit his pocket, his most sensitive 
part. His treasure ships, laden with California wealth, tra- 
verse Southern waters. Let them be the prize of the bravest 
and most enterprising. 

"His commerce is the very life of the enemy's solvency 
and financial vitality. Strike it, and you lay the axe to the 
root of his power — you rend away the sinews of war. Let 
the flags of privateers show themselves on the seas, and the 
blockade will be raised. Lincoln's fleet will scatter over the 
world to protect the commerce of his citizens. But they 
cannot protect it, though they try. They are numerous 
enough for the blockade, but not to guard the ocean. The 
risk of the privateer will still be trifling, and he will con- 
tinue to reap the harvest, laughing at the few scarecrows 
which would fright him from his profitable employment. 

" It is easy to put privateers afloat. There are an abun- 
dance of brave men among us ready to volunteer to fight any 
where. There are many among us ready to give money to 
the cause of their country, not looking for return. In this 
privateering, the most enormous returns are promised, with 
but trifling risk. Let the men of means fit out privateers if 
they would best serve their country and advance their own 
interests. Let companies be formed to embark capital in 
privateering. If they can't get the craft here, they can get 
them somewhere. It is a pursuit of honor, patriotism, 
profit. Let us scour the sea, a7id sweep their commerce from 
it with the besom of destruction.'' — Montgomery Advertiser. 



"We predict that Jefi". Davis will be on the banks of the 
Hudson within thirty days ; that Mr. Lincoln will fly, with 
what little may be scraped together from a bankrupt Treas- 
ury, from Washington, and that Gen. Scott will bear him 
company; that nothing will be left a month hence of the Old 
Union, except possibly New England ; and that the special 
session of Congress, called for the Fourth of July, will not 
meet nearer Washington than Portland, Maine, if it ever 

ets at all." — Memphis Avalanche. 



TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH. 7 

" The proceedings of the brutal mobs in Philadelphia, New 
York, &c., are, of course, what might be expected of those 
sewers into which the whole world has poured its superfluous 
filth and scum. The action of these church-burning, flour- 
plundering, swinish groundlings, has no terrors for any but 
their Northern masters, the cowardly conservatives, or con- 
servative cowards, who succumbed at the first onset of their 
white slaves. It is not only easy, but delightful, for bestial 
and craven natures to be ferocious and blood-thirsty where 
there is no danger, and Philadelphia, New York, &c., being 
supposed to be perfectly secure from bombardment, of course 
the dogs, wolves, hyenas, &c., had it all their own way. 

" But upon the barbarians who compose the lower orders of 
the Northern cities, and who are much inferior in humanity 
and refinement to African negroes, it is a waste of ammuni- 
tion to exhaust a single invective. The grossness and besti- 
alities of these ' lewd fellows of the baser sort ' are all upon 
the surface, and, therefore, bad as they are, they are not as 
contemptible as their masters. With some exceptions, the 
wealthy classes of the Northern cities are reptiles who have 
emerged from the same Stygian mud in which the more 
demonstrative and unclean mob are now wallowing, and in no 
wise differ from them except in their wealth, which has no 
power to confer elevated sentiments or purity of character. 

" Consequently, as their own newspapers testify, the classes 
of those cities called conservative, which is but another name 
for men of money, are the most depraved and ignorant of any 
society in the world which pretends to social elevation and 
influence. It is believed that Paris, in its worst days, never 
equalled the corruptions of society among the fashionable 
classes in the Northern cities. 

" For true conservatism, we have the most profound respect ; 
and Heaven forbid that, in forming a new government, the 
South should have root or branch of the accursed level- 
ling and agrarian spirit which has brought this country to 
its present ruin. But for the whited political and moral 
sepulchres of the North, called conservatives, simply because 
they have money in their purses, and seek to conserve it at 
the cost of a nation's peace and happiness, we have no senti- 
ments but those of profound loathing and abhorrence." — Rich- 
mond [Va.) Dispatch, 



8 SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 

" That the brutal fanatics who sit in the high places at Wash- 
ington are ready to plunge the whole country into contest and 
blood, we have never doubted. It was a thorough conviction 
of their treacherous and desperate hatred of the South that 
compelled us to urge, as the only course of safety for the 
South, a prompt and eternal separation from their power. 

" Events have shown that our estimation of this brutal and 
bloody faction was correct. Large portions of the people of 
the seceding States did not believe it. The frontier slave 
States have not believed it. They have still believed that 
there were feelings of respect, feelings of fraternity toward 
the people of the South, from the great body of the people of 
the North. Hence they have lingered in the foul embraces 
of a Union mastered by Abolitionism, whose one great policy 
was the subjugation of the South to the dominion of the 
North — whose one great passion was to destroy the South. 
Slowly, but surely, time has lifted the veil from the hideous 
and loathsome features of Abolitionism enthroned in Wash- 
ington. Its inauguration by cannon and bayonets manifested 
at once its principle and its reliance for success — despotism 
and force. Oliver Cromwell, praying whilst Charles the 
First's head was being cut off, was the example of its bloody 
hypocrisy. 

" With Lincoln's proclamation, and his requisition for 
troops to march upon the South, the standard for the conquest 
of the South is at last unfurled. Thirty years' agitation and 
hate at last breaks forth in its eager cries for blood. It is 
most natural. Thank God, the consummation is in our day, 
whilst yet we have the power to resist — the capacity to save 
ourselves from its meditated devastation, insurrection and 
horrors. 

"But will Northern hate and fanaticism fail in its prey? 
Will it not at least carry through the South one long track 
of blood, which will tell to future ages its fierce invasion, and 
stern efforts for conquest ? We answer, no ! 

" Fortunately for the world, it is never all mad. The 
first great result of the meditated invasion of the South will 
be to unite the South together. United together, the South 
is invincible. The North knows this as well as the South. 
On this account, we rejoice at the late demonstrations in 
Charleston Bay, and the war policy declared at Washington. 



TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH. 9 

Virginia will soon be with us ; and the other frontier States 
will follow her lead. They are forced to take sides by the 
Abolition government at Washington. They must help to 
conquer us, or aid us in our defence. We cannot doubt the 
result. The miserable fanatics and charletans at Washington 
are jDursuing the very course of policy we most earnestly de- 
sire them to pursue, and will defeat and destroy their power 
for evil in their effort to exercise it. We deprecate war ; but 
we frankly confess, that if war is necessary to consolidate the 
South, it is far preferable to the slaveholding States being 
divided. It is very far preferable to a mixed confederacy of 
slave and free States. The demonstration of war upon the 
South will, however, prevent war, by raising up such a power 
to meet it, through a united South, as will ensure its defeat." — 
Charleston Mercury. 



A Model Letter from a Baltimore Secessionist. One 
of the valiant secessionists of Baltimore has written the fol- 
lowing curious letter to his brother, a Union man: — 

"Baltimore, Md., April 25, 1861. 

"My Dear Brother, — I received your letter yesterday. 
All glad to hear from you. We have had stirring times in 
Baltimore since last Friday. We have driven back the 
hordes of negro worshippers from the North. It is really 
laughable to read the extracts from the New York papers 
about sacking and burning our city, when we have fed the 
half-starved slaves of Lincoln. On last Monday, we sent 
three car-loads of bread to the Pennsylvania paupers sent to 
attack us, and Baltimore told Lincoln to order them home, 
and he obeyed her. You have no idea of the war spirit 
here. Man and boy are all ready for the attempt to destroy 
us. In twelve hours, we could have sixty thousand men 
under arms, all eager for the fray. New York is a ruined 
city ; the South is done with her for ever ; her attitude to- 
wards her will not be forgotten soon. Maryland is out of 
the hateful Union — this will be the battle-ground. I be- 
seech you not to volunteer against your native State. Your 
brothers and nephews will be in the ranks of old Maryland. 
I am so much excited, that I cannot write any more. / am 
a rebel. 

"Your afifectionate brother, * * *." 



10 



SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 



"The rapid enlistment at the North of 'Dead Rabbits, 
'Plug Uglies,' ' Blood Tubs,' 'Jakies,' 'Soap Locks,' 'Bar- 
room Loungers,' 'Loafers,' 'Wharf-Bats,' 'Thieves,' and 
' Pickpockets,' reminds us that it is time we had begun to or- 
ganize, and prepare to defend our wives, our sisters, and our 
little ones from the menaces of a lawless horde that is now 
preparing for a descent upon our sacred hearthstones. Thou- 
sands of vagabonds at the North, with nothing else to do, are 
enlisting, not only for their bread, but the plunder that they 
expect to place their lawless grip upon. Men who have 
nothing to lose make the best thieves, and the outlawed 
scoundrels who are now 1511 ing the ranks of the Black Bepub- 
lican army are men who have no interest in common with 
humanity. Their nature is to prey upon their species, and 
they are prepared, like all other freebooters, to cut the throats 
of their neighbors, their fathers, or their brothers, for the sake 
of gold ! 

"To call them Judases would be a compliment, for that 
fallen disciple must have been possessed of the devil, and 
was prompted to betray and deliver the body of Christ, more 
by the influence of his Satanic Majesty than for the sake of 
the filthy lucre. But these mercenary hirelings, these Ar- 
nolds, are influenced alone by the thirty pieces of silver, and 
are not possessed of a sentiment half so sublime as that which 
the devil placed in the bosom of Judas. 

" Is it to be supposed, then, that the Cut-Throats and As- 
sassins, who sell themselves to the Typhon at Babylonish 
Washington, for Gold, for Booty, and for Beauty, will spare 
our homes and our household goods? Let no man lay that 
'flattering unction to his soul,' but rather let us prepare for 
their defence, and wall them in with bristling bayonets, de- 
termined hearts and willing hands." — Norfolk Day-Book, 



" The people of the North are either scared half out of 
their senses, or they are endeavoring to frighten us with their 
war bluster. By all accounts, they are raking their country 
from one extreme to the other, to catch every poor vagabond 
that they can either coax, buy or force to enlist." — Savannah 
News. 



TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH. 11 

"We are ready for action — thej^ are getting ready to pre- 
pare to act. They may raise plenty of men — men who 
prefer enlisting to starvation, scurvy fellows from the back 
slums of cities, whom Falstaff would not have marched 
through Coventry with ; but these recruits are not soldiers, 
least of all, the soldiers to meet the hot-blooded, thorough- 
bred, impetuous men of the South. Trencher soldiers, \vho 

enlisted to war on their rations, not on men, they are such 

as marched through Baltimore— squalid, wretched, ragged 
and half-naked, as the newspapers of that city report them. 
Fellows who do not know the breech of a musket from its 
muzzle,^ and had rather filch a handkerchief than fight an 
enemy in manly combat. White slaves, peddling wretches, 
small-change knaves and vagrants, the dregs and off-scourings 
of the populace — these are the levied 'forces' whom Lincoln 
suddenly arrays as candidates for the honor of being slaugh- 
tered by gentlemen such as Mobile sent to battle yesterday. 
Let them come South, and we will put our negroes to the 
dirty work of killing them. But they will not come South. 
Not a wretch of them will live on this side of the border 
longer than it will take us to reach the ground, and drive 
them over. 

" Mobile is sending forth to wage this war of independence, 
the noblest and bravest of her sons. It is expensive, extrav- 
agant, to put such material against the rifi'-raff of mercenaries 
whom the abolition power has called out to war upon us. We 
could almost hope that a better class of men would fall into 
the Northern ranks, that our gentlemen might find foemen 
worthy of their steel, whom it would be more difficult to con- 
quer, and whose conquering would be more honorable. For 
the present, however, we need not expect to find any foe 
worth fighting, with the exception of a few regiments, for the 
North is now getting ready, and will likely be whipped before 
it is ready." — Mobile Evening News. 



" It is said that aifairs in New York are in a very gloomy 
state, and that the j)eople have no hopes of a better" future 
state. Of course they haven't — Heaven was not intended 
for Black Republicans." — New Orleans Delta. 



12 SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 

A writer in DeBow's Review, the ablest of the Southern 
magazines, gets quite beside himself in talking of the North. 
Hear him ! 

"Our Southern women are all conservatives, moral, reli- 
gious, and sensitively modest, and abhor the North for infi- 
delity, gross immorality, licentiousness, anarchy and agrari- 
anism. 'T is they and the clergy who lead and direct the dis- 
union movement. It is a gross mistake to suppose that 
abolition alone is the cause of dissension between the North 
and South. The Cavaliers, Jacobites and Huguenots, who 
settled the South, naturally hate, condemn and despise the 
Puritans, who settled the North. The former are maoter 
races — the latter a slave race, the descendants of the Saxon 
serfs. The former are Mediterranean races, descendants of 
the Komans ; for Cavaliers and Jacobites are of Norman 
descent, and so were the Huguenots. The Saxons and An- 
glos, the ancestors of the Yankees, came from the cool and 
marshy regions of the North, where man is little more than 
a cold-blooded, amphibious biped. 

" We are the most aristocratic people in the world. Pride 
of caste and color and privilege makes every man an aristo- 
crat in feeling. Aristocracy is the only safeguard of liberty, 
the only power watchful and strong enough to exclude mo- 
narchical despotism. At the North, the progress and ten- 
dency of opinion is to pure democracy, less government, 
anarchy and agrarianism. Their hatred of the South will 
accelerate this noxious current of opinion, and anarchy will 
soon wind up in military despotism. There will be as many 
little despots as there are now States, for no usurper will 
wield means sufficient to conquer or fuse into one several 
States. It will be a great improvement in Northern affiiirs, 
and is far preferable to Northern Democracy, agrarianism, 
infidelity and free love." 



"Virginia is the particular object of abolition envy, hatred 
and arrogance. As the doomed and damned of Tophet hate 
the blessed in Paradise, so do the mean, hungry, avaricious, 
lying, cheating, hypocritical, cunning, cowardly Yankees hate 
the high-toned, elevated Southerner, but, above all, the Vir 



g niau." — Richmorid Examiner. 



TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH. 13 

Men in Buckram. The New Orleans True Delta says : 
"It is really refreshing this ardent weather to read the 
.ucubrations of the Northern journals, each one of them, 
from the infamous He7'ald to the slimy Journal of Commerce^ 
trying to outdo its mendacious neighbor in lying upon the 
most stupendous and patriotic scale. The immense armies 
these individuals proclaim as springing like Macgregor's 
clansmen from every bunch of heather, eager to devour these 
States, niggers and all, are, in our opinion, in buckram only ; 
mighty upon muster rolls, but few and far between upon 
marching occasions. That a good many can be got to go to 
Washington, we do not doubt; pastures thereabout are pleas- 
ant, and when open gratis to all visitors, agreeable and wel- 
come; but when it comes to the turn of Patterson, or Butler, 
or Gushing, honest Caleb, to try their 'prentice hands at war 
making to the South of the Potomac, our belief is that they 
will be missing. 

" Virginia, we think, can hold her own against all the 
armies this description of men will lead against her, without 
any other aid than her own fighting resources will furnish ; 
still, as her climate is inviting, and her hospitality of world- 
wide recognition, we would wish our gallant young soldiers 
now sickening upon the Metaire ridge an early safe deliver- 
ance from that locality and its execrable commissariat, and to 
get the route for Bichmond. When there, if Butler and 
Gushing should find followers from the Massachusetts men, 
or the terrible New York Seventh, other than such deserters, 
the country will be delighted, and for once in their lives 
these worthies will have a chance of meeting that retribution 
which sooner or later never fails to reach the betrayer of 
principle, the enemy of right, the venal conspirator, and the 
traitor, in all of which characters they have appeared and 
flourished. Let the Abolition and Breckinridge Democratic 
journals of the North continue to call for the destruction of 
the South ; it inspires no more uneasiness than the incoherent 
gibberish of the drivelling idiot, for they well know it means 
nothing, and that those who most vociferously unite in making 
the cry will be the very last to undertake the experiment of 
putting it into execution. The people are bewildered, but 
their enemies tremble in the presence of the spirit they have 
raised." 



14 SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 

The New Orleans Delta — the organ of the buccaneering 
horde which makes that city its head quarters — thus speaks 
of the enlightened masses of the free States. The last we 
heard from the Delta, (says the Boston Transcript,) its agent 
was in Boston soliciting subscribers, on the ground that it 
was a Union paper. He obtained about a hundred names, at 
ten dollars each. That paper now says : — 

"There is no doubt that the Northern people are at this 
moment fit representatives of the barbarian hordes which for- 
merly devastated the world. They are furnishing the very 
best evidence that they are incapable of thorough civilization; 
that they possess only the outward symbols of modern en- 
lightenment, while they are by nature cruel, blood-thirsty, 
arrogant and boastful. But there is really very little danger 
to be feared from them. Civilization no longer stands in 
dread of barbarism. One race of savages has already been 
expelled from the country ; but not that it may fall into the 
hands of another. The Northern people may exhibit all the 
ferocity of the Huns, but they will never find an Attila to 
lead them to the conquest of the South." 



The following article, copied from the Richmond Exajimier, 
is a choice specimen of the appeals put forth to concentrate a 
rebel force on Washington : — 

"The capture of AVashington city is perfectly within the 
power of Virginia and Maryland, if Virginia will only make 
the proper effort by her constituted authorities ; nor is there 
a single moment to lose. The entire population pant for the 
onset ; there never was half the unanimity amongst the people 
before, not a tithe of the zeal, upon any subject, that is now 
manifested to take Washington, and drive from it every Black 
Kepublican who is a dweller there. From the mountain tops 
and valleys to the shores of the sea, there is one wild shout of 
fierce resolve to capture Washington at all and every human 
hazard. The filthy cage of unclean birds must and will as- 
suredly be purified by fire. The people are detei'mined upon 
it, and are clamorous for a leader to conduct them to the 
onslaught. That leader will assuredly arise, aye, and that 
right speedily. 



TOWARDS THE SOLDIEKS OP THE NORTH. 15 

^ " It is not to be endured that this flight of Abolition har- 
pies shall come down from the black North for their roosts 
in the heart of the South, to defile and brutalize the land. 
They come as our enemies — they act as our most deadly 
foes — they promise us bloodshed and fire, and this is the only 
promise they have ever redeemed. The fanatical yell for the 
immediate subjugation of the whole South is going up hourly 
from the united voices of all the North ; and for the purpose 
of making their work sure, they have determined to hold 
Washington city as the point from whence to carry on their 
brutal warfare. 

"Our people can take it — they will take it — and Scott, 
the arch traitor, and Lincoln, the beast, combined, cannot 
prevent it. The just indignation of an outraged and deeply 
injured people will teach the Illinois Ape to repent his 
course, and retrace his journey across the borders of the free 
negro States still more rapidly than he came ; and Scott, the 
traitor, will be given an opportunity at the same time to try 
the difference between 'Scott's tactics' and the Shanghai drill 
for quick movements. 

^ " Great cleansing and purification are needed, and will be 
given to the festering sink of iniquity, that wallow of Lincoln 
and Scott — the desecrated city of Washington — and many 
indeed will be the carcasses of dogs and catiffs that will 
blacken the air upon the gallows, before the great work is 
accomplished. So let it be." 



" It seems that Washington City is the destination of most 
of Lincoln's levies. He is evidently determined to secure 
the protection of his own person against the approaches of 
the 'secessionists,' who doubtless haunt his midnight dreams. 
He could not play his card more effectually in the interests 
of the South. When he collects as many of his trainbands 
around him as he may deem essential to his safety, the armies 
of the South will close in upon them, as the hunter draws his 
net upon the luckless covey that find their way into its folds 
in the blindness of ignorance and fear. Maryland and Vir- 
ginia have joined the South in time to participate in this rare 
sport." — Jackson Mississippian. 



16 SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 

" A squad of Massachusetts militia, confronted by an equal 
number of Missis,sippi riflemen, would make better time than 
ever Lexington made over the Metaire course, Massachu- 
setts pluck and prowess are terrible on paper, but on paper 
only. The down-easters of Massachusetts are now avowing 
their ability and their intention of whipping the Southerners, 
to use their own classic language, ' to all darnation.' When 
it comes to the pinch, they will simmer down more quickly 
than the well-known individual, whose call for the man that 
struck Billy Patterson was so promptly and unexpectedly 
answered. The South, so it is threatened, is to be invaded by 
an army of codfish and onion-fed warriors from the State of 
Maine. At the first fire from Bragg's or Beauregard's bat- 
tery, they will scatter like a parcel of young chickens when 
they see the hungry hawk swooping down on them from the 
upper air." — New Orleans Crescent. 



"The cowardly 'eighteen millions' North told us we 
should not leave the Union. We did it openly and boldly, 
and they humbly acknowledge our government ' as a necessi- 
ty.' They shouted the praises of the * stars and stripes,' and 
dared the ' chivalry ' 'to touch the sacred emblem.' We have 
torn it down ; we have placed in its stead the flag of the 
Confederate States ; we have dared them to ' coerce ' us and 
resent the insult ; we have invited their vaunted numbers to 
the field ; but the only cry that comes from the craven dogs 
is, 'military necessity ' ; 'give up the forts'; 'withdraw the 
troops'; let us 'eat dirt and live.' It is sickening to think 
of ever having lived in the same government with such a 
people ; but let us rejoice at our separation, and look south- 
ward. The game North is beneath contempt, while Mexico 
invites us, by invasion of Texas, to recnact our former 
achievements." — Houston, [Texas) Patriot. 



Wanted — 5000 Washerwomen, with broomsticks, to whip 
back Governor Sprague's regiment from llliode Island, lately 
ofiered to Lincoln. 

CODFISH & INGUNS. 
— Auyuata (Ga.) paper. 



TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OP THE NORTH. 17 

More Southern "Honor." The followiiig is a copy of a 
letter received by Mr. Lyman Dike, a shoe dealer in Bos- 
ton. It needs no comment : such specimens of Southern 
honor and honesty have become too common to excite much 
remark: — 

"Columbia, S. C, May, 1861. 

"Lyman Dike, Esq., — I have collected three hundred 
dollars and twenty-three cents for you, and also for 0. M. 
Hitchings three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twenty- 
six cents, the notes for which said amounts were given ; you 
have my receipt for collection. The above amounts are de- 
posited in the Branch of the Bank of the State of South 
Carolina at Columbia. I noticed, some time ago, that the 
citizens of Boston were paying twenty dollars per month 
for hirelings to invade and subjugate the South. I will 
retain the above sums in my hands to assist in the payment 
for powder and ball expended upon your city hirelings, and 
the balance will be applied to give them a more decent 
burial than they would probably get at home. 

" Yours, &c., J. H. PIEBSON." 



Tlie Mobile Register of May 1st cheats itself and its read- 
ers with the following delectable romances : — 

" The Massachusetts troops which were so roughly handled 
by the people of Baltimore were half armed, badly clothed, 
and nearly starved. Their colonel behaved like a dastard, 
gave his men the order to ' run,' and sheltered himself under 
the wing of the Mayor. 

" At Gosport, where by Lincoln's order the public prop- 
erty was burned, all the accounts show that the naval and 
military officers and men to whom that vandal work was en- 
trusted, behaved in a most cowardly manner, and all hands 
were drunk, from Commodore Macaulay down. 

"The five thousand rowdies who seized Cairo are repre- 
sented as the scourings of the city of Chicago and other 
"Western towns, and they amuse themselves with stopping 
unarmed boats and stealing hen-coops. An eye-witness says 
that one thousand firm Southern men could run them from 
the town, unless the mosquitoes and chilis and fever save them 



18 SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 

the trouble in the meantime. Throughout the war, so far, not 
one act of courage, not one symptom of generalship and sol- 
dierly feeling or ability, have been displayed. Lincoln him- 
self is frightened to death, keeps up his spirits by pouring 
spirits down, sleeps with his boots on, and his ' cap and 
cloak ' at hand, with his palace filled with armed men to 
guard his sacred person. The Government, and the military 
and the press in its service, are exhibiting at every step un- 
mistakable signs of trepidation. 

" Woe be to the Northern battalions that meet the first 
shock and outburst of the fiery valor and fierce indignation 
that have fused in one compact mass the entire Southern mind 
and heart ! If the war lasts five years, the terras of peace 
will be dictated at the gates of Boston. But the war will 
not last so long. The day is not far distant when the North 
will sue for peace. Until it does, the policy as well as the 
will of the South is to give them war to their hearts' con- 
tent — war to the knife and to the hilt." 



" Gypsies and free negroes have many amiable, noble, and 
generous traits ; Yankees, sourkrout Germans and Canadians 
none. Senator Wade says, and Seward, too, that the North 
will absorb Canada. They are half true ; the vile, sensual, 
animal, brutal, infidel, superstitious democracy of Canada 
and the Yankee States will coalesce ; and Senator Johnson, 
of Tennessee, will join them. But when Canada and West- 
ern New York, and New England, and the whole beastly, 
puritanic, ' sourkrout,' free negro, infidel, superstitious, licen- 
tious, democratic population of the North become the masters 
of New York — what then? Outside of the city, the State 
of New York is Yankee and Puritanical; composed of as 
base, unprincipled, superstitious, licentious, and agrarian and 
anarchical population as any on earth. Nay, we do not hes- 
state to say that it is the vilest population on earth. If the 
city does not secede and erect a separate republic, this popula- 
tion, aided by the ignorant, base, brutal, sensual German infi- 
dels of the Northwest, the stupid democracy of Canada, (for 
Canada will in some way coalesce with the North,) and the 
arrogant and tyrannical people of New England, will become 
masters of the destinies of New York." — De Bow's Review. 



TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH, 19 

Tlie sort of stuff which passes for news in the Southern 
States seems to be growing more and more absurd. For in- 
stance, in the Charleston Courier, of April 29, we find these 
items: — 

"We learn from a passenger from Philadelphia, that one 
day last week, at Havre-de-Grace, three of the Northern 
volunteers who were marched from the North refused to go 
any further, assigning as a reason that they did not volunteer 
to go into a war of invasion upon the South. An officer 
who was standing by instantly cut and hacked two of the 
men to pieces. A third, who took the same ground, gave 
vent to a similar expression for the Union, cut his own throat 
from ear to ear, rather than allow himself to be hacked to 
pieces. 

" Mob law [in New York city] is triumphant, and Southern 
men, or those known to sympathize with the South, are in 
constant danger of their lives. Vigilance committees visit 
the houses of the wealthy, and every man is heavily assessed 
for the support of the families of those who have volunteered 
their services to the Administration. Assessments of $5,000, 
$3,000 and $2,000 on large houses are said to be very 
common. Those merchants who refuse, or make the slightest 
hesitation, are threatened with the cleaning out of their 
stores, and several already have been emptied by the mob. 

"Three men were set upon in Florence Hotel, New York, 
and two killed, for expressing sympathy with the South. 

" Merchants are packing off their clerks, and it is said that 
several large manufactories have been stopped with a view of 
forcing the operatives into the ranks of the volunteer sol- 
diery." 



The Kaleigh (N. C.) Banner, urging an attack upon 
Washington, says: — 

" The army of the South will be composed of the best ma- 
terial that ever yet made up an army ; whilst that of Lincoln 
will be gathered from the sewers of the cities — the degraded, 
beastly offscourings of all quarters of the world will serve for 
pay, and run away just as soon as they can, when danger 
threatens them." 



20 SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 

The following insulting letter has been sent to the Pres- 
ident, who is in frequent receipt of such malignant effusions : 

" Demopolis, Alabama, ) 

Confederate States of America, April, 1861. ) 
"His Excellency, Abraham Lincoln: 

"Sir, — I have just read your proclamation calling for 
75,000 mercenaries to invade these States. With all proper 
respect, I offer you a wager of $50,000, that we meet you 
half way, and whip you and your Yankee hosts. 

"Respectfully, ALFRED HATCH. 

" P. S. If the bet is accepted, the money will be depos- 
ited in the Farmers' Bank of Virginia." 



A Polite Invitation. Troops from tbe South and 
Southwest continue to pour into Virginia. They all go armed 
and equipped, and when Abraham orders his mercenaries to 
invade Old Virginia, they will be met by not less than 
100,000 well drilled and thoroughly disciplined troops, and 
after the first battle, won't the vultures have a good time 
feeding on Yankee carcasses ? Come on, Abi'aham, you are 
wanted ! Old Scott, we hope, will head the invading force. 
If so, his bones will be apt to rot on the soil which he has 
disgraced by his treachery. — Newber7i Progress. 



The Poisoning Policy. A letter from Pensacola to a 
Mobile paper gives an account of an interview between a 
U. S. officer on board of the Powhatan, and a Capt. Thomp- 
son, whose craft had been overhauled, wherein the officer ex- 
pressed a desire to purchase fresh butter, eggs, vegetables, 
&c. The writer adds — 

"Here's a chance now to play old Greeley's game — 
strychnine the last rascal of an officer; rat soup the marines, 
and drench the sailors with chain-lightning whisky. Any 
thing, any thing to get rid of these hateful ships and their 
crews." 



TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH. 



21 



A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writing from 
Richmond, anticipates an attack upon that city, "the gem of 
the State, the Koh-i-noor upon which Lincoln and that twin- 
hearted brother of his, the recreant Scott, are feasting their 
gaze as the richest prize of the South." " Possibly," he 
says, " the ' glorious Seventh,' that orchestra of military vir- 
tues, will lead the vanguard — 'glorious' in their clean faces, 
languishing side whiskers, good clothes, white kids and 
patent leather boots ; and possibly they may be received, but 
not as before. It will be a ' welcome with bloody hands to 
hospitable graves.' Zouaves, rowdies, New York thieves 
and cut-throats, mingled with a hodge-podge of Jerseymen, 
Rhode Islanders, Massachusetts men, wooden-nutmeg Yan- 
kees and Down-Easters, may also come — a solid, gapmg 
phalanx ; but they will be met by a wall of Southern hearts, 
who will turn them in their tracks, or annihilate them from 
their soil. There is a great difference between fighting for 
wages or for an abstract idea, and fighting for mothers, wives 
and sisters. ' Beauty and booty ' may be a tempting motto 
with which to invade your neighbor's fireside, but it is one 
which wipes out all the landmarks of civilized warfare, and 
will secure for its follower the fate of the brute." 



The Memphis Avalanche says: — " It is painful to see the 
Chair at Washington disgraced by such a degraded, drunken 
wretch as Abe Lincoln. Our reverence for the Father of his ; 
Country makes us anxious to see the city bearing his honored 
name rid of such a caricature of a President." The same 
print persistently accuses " old Abe" — as honest an old tee- 
totaller as ever lived — of habitual drunkenness, and says the 
President became addicted to this vice in this way : — " The 
cares of place affected his nervous system so much that he 
could not sleep. His physician administered to him large 
quantities of opium and brandy each evening until stupidity 
would ensue, and then he would fall into profound slumber. 
In the morning, his prostration would become so great that 
liquor would be resorted to; and thus, by a frequent repeti- 
tion of this treatment, he has become so demoralized by the 
use of liquors as to be perfectly imbecile, and thoroughly 
indifferent to what is passing around him." 



22 SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH 

"We have much to do. We shall be necessitated to whip 
them soundly — to burn a few of their towns — to capture 
Washington as a city, or enter it as a heap of ruins; we will 
have to cripple their commerce with privateers ; burn their 
factories, and reduce them to the condition of begging peace, 
instead of graciously condescending to grant us a separate 
existence with peace, as we have besought. Every thing 
leads to this opinion. They are distracted among themselves. 
Their resources are crippled ; their toiling millions are suf- 
fering already; their sober, thinking men acknowledge that 
madness rules their every movement, and none who view 
things as they are can for a moment believe that success will 
crown their efforts. 

" On our part, we have hundreds of thousands of men well 
armed, ready to take the field at a moment's warning. We 
are united in every way, with the consciousness of a just 
cause, and, above all, with millions of dollars at our com- 
mand." — Montgomery corr. Charleston Courier. 



"The people of the Monumental City were right in ar- 
resting the progress of an army raised to shoot down tljeir 
Southern brethren. We hope they will keep up the good 
work, and even strike at home for their honor and independ- 
ence. There are slumbering fires, not only in Maryland but 
in States north of her, that await only an opportunity to 
burst forth, and when they appear, we may look out for a 
revolution that the world now little expects. Thank God ! 
the time has arrived when these minions of Abolition can 
never plant a foot south of the Potomac. Virginia will see 
to it, if tried, that they repent the experiment." — Savannah 
Republican. 



All to be Butchered. The leading papers of the Lin- 
coln party at the North declare that the people of the South 
shall be butchered like dogs, and their property divided out 
among the soldiers who fight for Lincoln. They threaten our 
wives and our little ones with the most inhuman butchery, 
and talk of setting fire to our dwellings and wiping us from 
the very face of the earth. — Milledgeville Federal Union. 



TOWAUDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH. Zd 

The Tallahassee Sentinel has just learned how Mr. Lin- 
coln lives. It sajs : — 

" Lincoln keeps five men in his room to guard him by 
night, and Mrs. Lincoln two to guard her. Old Abe, in 
order to keep his spirits and courage up, ' pours the spirits 
down,' and is half drunk all the time. For fear of being 
poisoned, Mrs. Lincoln has turned cook, and prepares all the 
food thej eat. Some ministers of the Grospel recently called 
to see him, to entreat him to desist from his mad policy of 
coercion, when the indignant Abe cursed them away, swear- 
ing that the Southerners should wade knee-deep in blood be- 
fore entering Washington city." 



" But one course is left for all honorable Southern men to 
pursue : that is, to get ready for battle. The man that 
doubts is damned ; he that dallies is a dastard. We feel no 
apprehension as to the patriotism of the people of the Confed- 
erate States. An army of seventy-five thousand men, backed 
by volunteers from the Border States, will soon be organized 
by President Davis. But we must not only be ready to de- 
fend our homes, our families and firesides : we must carry the 
war into Africa. We must attack the Black Republican 
citadel, and drive out its infamous garrison. Let Washing- 
ton city be the point of attack, and an army of 100,000 men 
be marched against it." — Federal Union, Milledyeville, Ga. 



The following is an extract of a letter from New Orleans, 
dated April 10 : — 

" I start in a few days at the head of a thousand of the best 
men you ever saw, with Maynard rifles and Colt's navy 
revolvers. We think we can whip five Abolitionists to one 
of us. We may meet some of you at Washington — if so, 
look out for the top of your heads at a thousand yards." 



" We learn from a gentleman who saw this regiment [the 
Massachusetts 6th] at Baltimore, that it is composed of the 
meanest-looking, whiskey-swilling, rum-head ragamuffins that 
he had ever seen." — Montgomery Mail. 



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24 SPIRIT OP THE SOUTH. 

" Our citizens feel considerable relief at getting rid ot 
Gen. Butler — in other words, Picayune or Strychnine But- 
ler — who was in command for some days of this military 
division. A more conceited or bigger fool has not appeared 
in Baltimore since the National Democratic Convention last 
spring, when the same popinjay coxcomb was here figuring 
as a great Breckinridge man. Our citizens of intelligence 
and polite attainments, who were obliged to come in official 
contact with him, were absolutely disgusted. Supreme re- 
spect for law and order alone prevented his getting into diffi- 
culty. Fancy the old mush-head seated upon a charger, 
armed with sword and pistols, a cigar in his mouth and half 
tight, surrounded by his staff and body guard, riding the 
streets in open day, blustering like a swelled frog, a'^suming 
importance much beyond what that reptile did when it 
swelled to bursting at beholding the ox. Thank fortune, 
' Picayune Butler ' has gone from town, as is well understood, 
at the bidding of his master, and left a gentleman — Gen. 
Cadwallader — to adorn the position he cumbered with a 
mountebank." — Baltimore corr. Charleston Courier. 



The Charleston Mercury, after saying that the officers 
clothed with power by the voice of the people "would fly like 
rats out of a burning barn," out-Herods Herod thus : — 

"Let them go. Do not pollute the soil of Virginia or 
Maryland with their mean blood. Let them go. To keep 
them in Washington, after Virginia and Maryland have se- 
ceded, you will have to put them in a three-story jail. Do 
not dignify them by chasing them — much less killing them." 



" If one half the Northern people feel and think as we infer 
from their papers — and they represent a vast majority in 
every State — we would as soon confederate with the cannibals 
of the South Sea or the Thugs of India as with them. They 
have forced us to the separation, and now, w^e say, let it be 
for ever — and even beyond that time, should God in his 
providence permit. We want nothing to do with such a peo- 
ple, cither in time or eternity." — Savannah Republican, 



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